Need Help Cloning a Drive

[Bob Elzer]

Is it my browser or is it your blog dim gray text on a dark gray background
?

I can't see the thing to read it !

Sorry

 

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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 8:13 AM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Need Help Cloning a Drive

now im at a computer i did a brief blog post about your very situation.
http://cryptworksapps.blogspot.com/2011/06/doing-rude-horrible-and-wonderful
.html

clonezilla to clone the drive, and gparted LiveCD to adjust the partition
sizes.

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Honestly I suggest clonezilla for this. It will get everything windows 
> Linux grub etc.
>
> On Jul 17, 2011 7:48 AM, "Mark Phillips" <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
wrote:
>> I purchased a larger hard drive (~750 GB)) for my laptop and want to 
>> clone my current laptop drive (~320 GB) to the new one. The new drive 
>> is connected to the laptop via usb - I can mount it and read/write to 
>> it. This is what I did, but it didn't seem to work out...
>>
>> 1. Boot laptop using latest Knoppix
>> 2. umount both /dev/sda(old drive, internal to laptop) and /dev/sdb 
>> (new drive connected via usb) 3. I was going to use dd, but read that 
>> dd_rescue is a little better (read error handling, reporting 
>> progress), so I installed that and fired it iup
>>
>> knoppix at Microknoppix:~$ sudo ddrescue -f -n /dev/sda /dev/sdb
>>
>>
>> Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
>> rescued: 320072 MB, errsize: 0 B, current rate: 29753 kB/s
>> ipos: 320072 MB, errors: 0, average rate: 29513 kB/s
>> opos: 320072 MB, time from last successful read: 0 s Finished
>>
>> 4. I thought, time to use gparted to expand the Linux partition for 
>> my new drive to the full size, and install the new drive.....but 
>> wait, there are problems!
>>
>> knoppix at Microknoppix:~$ fdisk -l
>>
>> Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 
>> 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes 
>> / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk 
>> identifier: 0x81d6785f
>>
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility
>> /dev/sda2 * 6 1918 15360000 7 HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/sda3 1918 7017 40963092+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/sda4 7018 38913 256204620 5 Extended
>> /dev/sda5 * 7018 37615 245778403+ 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda6 37616 38913 10426153+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
>> Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)
>> Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
>> Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
>> Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
>> Warning: invalid flag 0xbfbb of partition table 5 will be corrected 
>> by
>> w(rite)
>>
>> Disk /dev/sdb: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 11400 cylinders Units = cylinders of 
>> 16065 * 4096 = 65802240 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 
>> bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 
>> bytes Disk identifier: 0x81d6785f
>>
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/sdb1 1 5 321048 de Dell Utility
>> Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
>> /dev/sdb2 * 6 1918 122880000 7 HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/sdb3 1918 7017 327704740 7 HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/sdb4 7018 38913 2049636960 5 Extended Partition 4 does not start 
>> on physical sector boundary.
>> /dev/sdb5 ? 82628 130208 3057478824 48 Unknown 
>> knoppix at Microknoppix:~$
>>
>> It appears that dd-rescue did what I expected it to do....copied sda 
>> to sdb bit by bit. I am not sure what the warnings are for sda, but 
>> it looks like dd_rescue did what it was supposed to do. However, What 
>> do I do about the errors on sdb? GParted does not recognize the 
>> partition table for sdb, and reports 698 GB of unallocated space.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions you may have to solve/explain what is going
on!
>>
>> Mark
>



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rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen
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